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 out how it's done. What a fine fortune she may raise, if she will take up a patent for beauty-making! I know many a dowager that would give half she is worth for the secret. I should think you would not be sorry yourself, Mrs. Maple, to have a little touch of the art. It would not do you much harm, I can tell you, Ma'am."

The scornful looks of Mrs. Maple alone announced that she heard him; and the disturbed ones of Ellis made the same confession; but both were equally mute.

"You'll pay for your sport, I can tell you, Master Ireton!" Riley triumphantly went on; "for I shall claim my wager. But pray, Demoiselle, what's become of all those plaisters and patches, as well as of the black coat over the skin? One could see nothing but eyes and nose. And very handsome eyes and nose they are. I don't know that I ever saw finer; I don't, faith! However, ladies, you need none of you despair of